Case studies

East Riding of Yorkshire Council provides its sport, play and arts service and its leisure service inhouse. Other models have been considered and trialled in the past, such as outsourcing, but the services demonstrate high levels of success under the in-house mechanism.

East Riding is an area within Humber Coast and Vale Sustainability and Transformation Partnership, which is establishing several integrated care partnerships (ICPs). This case study forms part of our integrated care systems (ICS) resource.

East Riding Archives’ Blockdown project harnessed the possibilities of the videogame Minecraft as an interactive learning environment and as a tool to collect young peoples’ experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic in the region.

East of England Ambulance Service wanted to give a snapshot of what it handles in one of its busiest 24hr periods.

In 2015 the Council produced a Leisure Strategy to inform the forthcoming procurement of its three leisure facilities.

Between 2004 and April 2015, the Council committed to invest £7,625,000 of capital income to deliver new affordable housing

In December 2020, the East Lindsey District Council successfully secured £2.2million from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) for Green Homes Grants. Over the next 18 months, a team was built, contractors were procured, and 192 properties received energy efficiency upgrades to help make them warmer, more affordable to run and less impactful on the environment through reduced carbon emissions.

Consumer habits and retail trends are changing at an unprecedented rate, which poses a lot of challenges for town centres and high streets across the country. Despite these challenges councils across the country are eager to regenerate them and make them thriving community and economic hubs.

Partners East Dorset and Christchurch Councils identified licensing as an area of high demand and volume, with the majority of the process being handled offline. The current processes took up a considerable amount of customer time and effort, while officers were involved in re-keying data and reconciling payments. This case study forms part of our digital experts resource.

Poverty prevention and alleviation is a priority for East Devon District Council. The council set up a working panel in 2020 to lead the creation of a poverty strategy and action plan, and then to monitor progress against it. The strategy has five objectives – including to help people on low incomes build financial resilience and reduce indebtedness.